Iron County register., 1887-07-21
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


While Frederick Leonhart. stranger
from st. Louis, was walking down street
in Kansas City few nights ago, carrying
a valise, an unknown man rushed up TO
him, seized the sachel and ran away with
it. No policeman was in sight, and the
man escaped. He had over 500 in the
receptacle.
Charles Newton Dodd died of poison,
self-administered, in a room at the dotei
Hunt, st. Louis, a few days ago. AT the
same hour the remains OF Mrs. Lee u
Wallace were being borne to the grave.
She too had taken poison the day De1ore,
abstracting it from Dodd's valise, after
debauch in which they had jointly par
ticipated at her boardin g-house.
Two weeks ago Thomas L. Kei1, who
went to Kansas City in January, 1855, as
the general agent of the New En- CLAN
Life Insurance COMPANY, left that place,
ostensibly for st. Joseph on business. he
did not return, and an inves tigation was
finally begun, when it was found that he
had secured about $1,000. He is now in
Canado. His wife and children, whom he
left destitute, have gone to their former
home in Canada ..f
Mr.. E. p. Lansdown, who Is progress.
i've and successful apiarist, of Cole
County, says that there will be no honey
this season and that bee-keepers will be
compelled to winter their ''stands" next
year by artificial methods; in other words,
the bees will have to be fed. The bees
have made no honey at all this summer so
far. The crop of flowers seems to be
abundant enough. but, for some
reason not known to the uninitiated the
'busy bee" seems to have lost its tabled
industry.
Charlie Westemacher, some years age
known as the "Barley King" from his
daring speculations in that grain, was
drowned in the Mississippi at St Louis a
few days ago by falling of ferry boat.
He was at one time in af1uent circum-
stances, but drink ruined him.
Henry Sarvies, of st. Louis, died from
lockjaw caused by bullet received on
the Fourth from a toy pistol.
A valuable horse belonging to DR.. A. T.
Fletcher committed suicide by running
against the east gate of Tower Grove
park, st. Louis.
An effort is being made to secure local
option in Lafayette County.
John Hodgins and James OHara were
suffocated in cistern at ST. Louis few
days ago.
Jack Hayes, the insane St Louis MUIR
derer, has been taken to the asylum.
The fall of the Bastle was appropriate
ly commemorated by the French resi-
dents of ST. Louis on the 14th inst.
Anthony Kane, of st. Louis, took 'Rough
on Rats" a few days ago with suicidal
intent, but changed his mind and went to
the dlspensary, where he was pumped
out.
The following post-ofices have been
discontinued in this State: Ivy, Wayne
County, mail to Greenville; Jordan, Ma
To Tnrnar
roll County, mail to Shootman.
The Beard of Traie and City Council of
ST. Joseph have forwarded an elaborately
gotten up invitation to President and
Mrs. Cleveland to extend their Western
trip to st. Joseph. The invitation is
printed on parchment and bound in mo-
rocco.
Tom Kelly entered the shooting
gallery of jeff Stevens, at Kansas
City, few days ago. He picked
up gun and was handling 1t,
when the proprietor ordered him to lay it
down. A dispute followed, which ended
in Stevens shooingu Kelly in the abdo-
men, infiicting mortal wound. This is
the third pers on Stevens has shot in the
past year.
John c. FitZgibbons, proprietor of the
El Dorado House, a saloon and boarding
house in Kansas City, shot and instantly
killed Pat Kelly, who stole a valise from
a room in his house a few nights ago.
The passenger train on the Chica go,
Rock Island & Pacific, coming west from
Chicago, struck a section-man named
Albert Smith, near Altamount, few
days ago, killing him instantly. The
pilot broke Smiths neck
Sister Mary Josephine Barber died at
the Visitation Convent in st. Louis few
days since. She has been a sufferer from
cancer for two years. Her name is famous
in the annals of the Catholic Church of
America, and she herself had been for
over o half century a member of the
order.
Fred Kane, a druggist of Grant City,
was taken before United States Commis-
sioner Durham, at st. Joseph, few days
ago, on charge Of violating the internal
revenue law by selling a soda water
sirup which he labeled hot coffee, the
ingredients of which were red whisky
and sugar. He was bound over to the
United States District Court, which holds
its first meeting in st. Joseph, in October.
Michael Brady, a wild over, aged sixty
five years, was found dead 10 his bed at
Sedalia few days since. He had been
planning for couple of days, but
was not considered dangerous. He lived
alone, and the fact Of has demise was not
known until Mrs. Burns, who prepared
his meals, called at his residence and
found him dead.
An effort is being made at Higginsville
to organize company with $50, 900 capital
to develop the coke industry. The ex.
periments made with Higginsville coal
last spring and the succeeding tests and
assays have proven so thoroughly that
coke can be made from this coal of supe-
rior quality and on paying basis, that
this effort to organize the company is
now being made.
Daniel Branigan was instantly killed in
the yard of the bridge company at Ran
dolph a few days ago. He was standing
by pile of stone when one weighing
1900 pounds fell on him. He was com-
pletely f1attened out. Branigan was a
single man, thirty five years Of age. His
home was in st. Paul, Mimi.
The chief of police of st. Louis, unde
Instructions from the board, has issued
an order to the Captains of the various
districts instructing them to arrest and
prosecute all persons peddling Or hawk
ing their wares on the streets on Sunday.
This is under an old ordinance which has
existed on the books for years, more as a
curiosity than any thing else. Under
this order the police will pull in the ice-
cream man, the hokey-pokey man, and
and the peanut and banana peddlers, like
wise the lemonade man. The. butcher,
the baker and the milkman will be un.
molested.
Maxwelrs days are num bered.
William Fl. Wilson, young man living
at his mothers boarding house, in St.
Louis, made desperate endeavor to end
his life by cutting his throat with razor
q few days ago. He merely succeeded in
making an ugly cash in his throat, and a
doctor who was called in stan ched the
flow of blood and sewed up the wound.
The Hotel Brunswick, one OF the best
.hostelries in Kansas City. has been sold